Old Goriot
by Balzac, Honore De
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0140440178
- ISBN 13
- 9780140440171
- Seller
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Synopsis
The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy . Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils , Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24400
- Title
- Old Goriot
- Author
- Balzac, Honore De
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0140440178
- ISBN 13
- 9780140440171
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- 0140440178, Fiction > Classics, Literary, History > France
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; France;
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